Numerical studies of swirling flow in a miniature supersonic nozzle

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1007-1014

  Liu, Yi ^a   Cao, Chunli ^a   Liu, Fang ^b   He, Wei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Wuxi Institute of Commerce   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Nozzle; Numerical; Supersonic; Swirling; Turbulence model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; GAS DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENCE;

MICROPARTICLE ACCELERATION; PROTOTYPE DEVICE; SUPERSONIC NOZZLE;

NOZZLES;

EID: 33744507871     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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